[rfc] Allow watchpoints on inaccessible memory

Jim Blandy jimb@red-bean.com
Fri Feb 29 17:54:00 GMT 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:25:00AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>  > Here's something I've been meaning to try for ages.  Suppose you have
>  > a global variable pointing to some dynamically allocated storage, and
>  > you want to find writes into that storage.  When the pointer isn't
>  > initialized you can't even set the watchpoint:
>
>  I have updated this patch, simplified, centralized, commented more
>  thoroughly, and added a NEWS entry.  Jim, is this version clearer?

Yes, much more so.  Thanks.



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